Month: May 2025

The annual Spring Ladies ‘Lunch is one of several occasions during the year that the men of the Probus Club have lunch with the ladies in their lives.

This May it took place at the Test Valley Golf Club and had as their guest of honour, Janet Fagg, the President of Basingstoke’s Ladies’ Probus Club. She was in the company of friends as, like herself being the partner of a Probus member, several wives present are also members of the Ladies’ Probus Club which has been in continuous operation for nearly thirty-two years.

Speaking after lunch, Janet remarked of the convenience living with a member of the men’s Probus Club as it gave an insight into their speaker programme that enabled those suitable for a female audience could be identified. They had enjoyed a visit to a Japanese garden in Fleet and in the summer will be having an afternoon tea.

In the meantime, the men, together with any of their ladies who may be interested, in June are going to visit the grand house Kingston Lacy in Dorset. Other activities during the summer include a trip on the Basingstoke canal as well as their traditional summer pub lunch.

Good coverage in all the local magazines in May and several full pages have had to be reduced to fit on the front covers on our web site. You will see that the Basinga and the Kempshott Kourier carried the Jaguar story while the remainder used the HMS Broadsword report about the 1982 Falklands war.

The Loddon Valley Link also joined in with both our HMS Broadsword feature as well as a report about the Ladies’ Probus Club visiting a Japanese garden in Fleet, as did the Rabbiter, Bramley, Villager and the Basingstoke Gazette.